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After meeting between leaders of Facebook, ADL, Free Press, NAACP, and Color Of Change, boycott organizers are unconvinced meaningful change will occur at FB — WASHINGTON — On Tuesday afternoon, leaders of four of the organizations coordinating the #StopHateForProfit advertising boycott met …
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| Filipe Espósito / 9to5Mac: |
Code in the second developer beta of iOS 14 reveals a hidden and unannounced feature in the Wallet app that would allow payments with QR codes using Apple Pay — Apple today released the second developer beta of iOS 14 with some small changes across the system.
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| Tom Simonite / Wired: |
A look at how AI companies like Synthesia are creating corporate-friendly uses for deepfakes, like creating multilingual, personalized training videos — Coronavirus restrictions make it harder and more expensive to shoot videos. So some companies are turning to synthetic media instead.
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Microsoft and Zoom join the “pause” on compliance with data requests from Hong Kong authorities; Apple, under pressure to act, says it's “assessing the new law” — Social media firms react to sweeping new national security legislation imposed by China
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| Chaim Gartenberg / The Verge: |
Samsung announces its next Galaxy Unpacked event for August 5, to be held virtually, where the Galaxy Note 20 lineup and Galaxy Fold's successor are expected — Time for a new Galaxy Unpacked event — Samsung has announced that its next Galaxy Unpacked event will take place on Wednesday, August 5th, at 10AM ET.
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| Diane Bartz / Reuters: |
Sources: FTC and Justice Department are looking into allegations TikTok failed to live up to a 2019 agreement to protect children's privacy — WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Federal Trade Commission and the U.S. Justice Department are looking into allegations that popular app TikTok failed … | Arjun Kharpal / CNBC: |
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| Richard C. Moss / Ars Technica: |
A retrospective on a nearly 25-year history of Flash, as Adobe prepares to officially end support and distribution of Flash Player in December 2020 — Before Flash Player sunsets this December, we talk its legacy with those who built it. — Few technologies have yielded such divisive and widespread passion as Flash.| Patrick O'Neill / MIT Technology Review: |
Unsealed court documents reveal identity of Fxmsp, a Kazakh hacker responsible for information theft from 300+ companies and governments in 44 countries — Newly-unsealed court documents name a Kazakh man as the mastermind behind a hacking campaign that hit 44 countries. They also detail his short-lived successes.
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| Brian Heater / TechCrunch: |
ARM plans to spin off its two IoT businesses to its parent company SoftBank, in order to focus its efforts exclusively on the semiconductor IP business — Arm today announced plans to spinoff its two IoT business, a move that would effectively transfer the divisions under the broader umbrella …
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| Nick Statt / The Verge: |
Instagram will start letting users pin up to three comments on their posts, after testing the feature in May — To help users highlight positive replies and better moderate abusive ones — Instagram on Tuesday started the official rollout of its pinned comment feature …
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| Jason Del Rey / Vox: |
Sources: Walmart+, a $98/year Amazon Prime rival, will launch in July, with same-day delivery, discounts at Walmart gas stations, reserved delivery slots, more — After announcing a number of improvements to its online shopping experience, Walmart is now taking aim at Amazon Prime membership.
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| Stu Woo / Wall Street Journal: |
Nokia placed the wrong bet on its expensive and energy-intensive 5G chip design, costing Nokia market share as it hasn't benefited from US attack on Huawei — After losing market share to the Chinese firm and rival Ericsson, the Finnish giant reverses course on computer processors
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| Manish Singh / TechCrunch: |
Unacademy acquires PrepLadder, which offers medical education courses online, for $50M, as Unacedemy and Byju's eye edtech consolidation in India with more M&A — Indian online learning platform Unacademy said on Tuesday it has acquired Chandigarh-based startup PrepLadder for $50 million …
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| Carolyn Said / San Francisco Chronicle: |
Uber drivers in Southern California and Sacramento can now set their own fares, higher or lower than Uber's existing rates, in response to AB5 state law — Uber is letting drivers in Southern California and Sacramento set their own fares, a feature it will soon bring to the Bay Area and the entire state.| Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet: |
Report: a group known as Keeper has breached at least 570 online e-commerce portals since 2017; 85% of the victims' sites were running Magento software — Hackers also accidentally leaked more than 184,000 stolen cards through an improperly secured backend server.| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Prime Video launches user profiles globally, allowing six per account, giving access to a Watchlist, personalized recommendations, and viewing progress — Amazon's Prime Video is finally adding a feature that's long since become a standard for streaming video services: user profiles.
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